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Glendara Homestead

Glendara Homestead is a six-acre rural homestead and small farm transitioning toward sustainability and resilience. Glendara includes a restored 1930s farm house, 19th century barns, free range chickens and ducks, dairy goats, woodlots for wood biofuel, vegetable gardens, orchard, frog pond, creek, natural maple grove play area for children, bonfire area, trails and diverse wildlife. Glendara Homestead operates on wood biofuel heat and electricity from wind energy. Glendara is located in Clarksville, New York (20 minutes outside of the city of Albany), just 2 miles north of Lawson Lake County Park.

Glendara Homestead is a skills training center and demonstration site for sustainable living immersion experiences. We provide young people and young families with experiences in simpler living embedded in nature and the changing seasons. We also train youth, young adults, young parents and their mentors and elders in environmental sustainability education and skills, sustainability leadership, ecological restoration and ecocivic engagement in preparation for a rapidly changing 21st century world.

Visitors and volunteers to Glendara gain practical experience and sustainable living skills by helping operate the homestead, installing new sustainable features, and implementing ecological restoration projects. Visitors and volunteers choose from the following opportunities:

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The Anam Earth Center for Sustainability and Culture is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit youth and environment organization, working to transition communities to sustainability and resilience by preparing the next generation of young people for leadership in the 21st century’s Age of the Anthropocene.